Closer to Bizarre

[angelicdewdrop]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black mackerel tabby

[liberalsarecool]

Capitalism is failing. Wages are too low. Medicare should be a right, not a profit center.

SNAP benefits the hungry, but let's be real, the grocery stores sell more food. The distributors benefit. The food producers benefit. The truck drivers. The farmers. All the employees in those industries benefit.

For every dollar spent by SNAP recipients, $1.80 is returned in local economic activity.

Context:

Can we get the Republicans on record talking about SNAP and ROI?

The 'party of business' is a joke.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Putting "Ghibli-inspired" on a high shelf until the people talking about it as if it means "generic coziness and nothing else" have watched more Ghibli movies

[punkitt-is-here]

[profeminist]

sailormoonwisdom

"if you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.—food is a right, not a privilege. with snap benefits suspended, people are no longer trying to get by…they’re trying to survive.there is power in community. we must take care of each other when the government fails us.

i am not encouraging theft!!! i’m just saying that compassion always triumphs over capitalism. if you can donate, donate. if you can help, help. when survival is criminalized, solidarity becomes revolutionary."

[starlike-klondyke]

I hope this isn't a controversial opinion, but I would rather have my tax dollars go to people fraudulently using SNAP benefits than have a single person go hungry. And I mean real fraud, not selling food stamps to buy tampons or any of that. I wouldn't care if half of the people receiving SNAP benefits didn't really need them if it meant everybody in the US had enough food to eat. It's food stamps. That's the exact kind of thing taxes are supposed to be for. Food isn't supposed to be a privilege or a luxury.

The ideal scenario, of course, would be that 100% of people do not require food assistance because food is necessary to live.

[heathenvampires]

Defrauding help says more about them

Refusing genuine need because they MIGHT be lying says more about you

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

stop deactivating

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

i thought we all agreed we were here forever

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

My mom went to four different bodegas before finding two copies of the absolutely iconic “The Red Apple” new york post for me and my best friend. This is my new favorite historical artefact that I own.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Apparently everyone else in manhattan also woke up and immediately went to their local bodega to buy this HUAC-ass paper for their friends and family to frame.

[allamericansbitch]

i love this new gen of pop stars so much

[allamericansbitch]

an absolutely humungous update they just keep getting better

[rowark]

I think this needs an important addendum:

Not only did Billie Eilish donate $11.5M, she also called out a room full of billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg, directly to their faces, saying "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but, yeah, give your money away, shorties."

The $11.5M she's donating is about 1/4 if her net worth. Imagine if a billionaire did that? If Mark Zuckerberg donated 1/4 of his net worth, it would be about $55 BILLION... and he's still have over $100 billion left.

And, yet, unsurprisingly, people are mad at Billie Eilish for what she said and not at the billionaires for hoarding all the money and resources

[bumblebeebats]

Twice. Twice now, I have sat down to eat spaghetti (my cat's favourite food) (poisonous to cats) only for the neighbours' fire alarm to immediately go off. I, of course, run out to see if my building is on fire, which it is not (popcorn), only to come back in and find what? you guessed it. Cat face-first in the spaghetti. He is doing this with his fucking mind

[y2kcompatible]

[sunshine-tattoo]

man we gotta get regular porn back on this website

[glavilio]

disrupting skyspace james turrell / coyote

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

[charmcoin]

one fun thing about living in the midwest is that they're selling pigs on facebook marketplace. 300 dollars could buy me a new and interesting problem

[average-beets]

[mxmollusca]

Feel like I need to add this addition from the mod

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